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Advice after opening link in hacked email

A friend sent me an email (or so I thought) with a link which I opened and then realized too late that the friend's email had been hacked and that my friend really didn't send the email. The link was to a Viagra site. What should I do and how can I tell if anything bad was downloaded on my computer? I have changed my email password and did a scan with Norton Internet Security which found nothing. Is that enough or should I do something else? By the way, I do not run as an Administrator. Also, there is no way I could have known that this was a hacked email; I didn't even think it was suspicious.

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Re: Advice after opening link in hacked email

A friend sent me an email (or so I thought) with a link which I opened and then realized too late that the friend's email had been hacked and that my friend really didn't send the email. The link was to a Viagra site. What should I do and how can I tell if anything bad was downloaded on my computer? I have changed my email password and did a scan with Norton Internet Security which found nothing. Is that enough or should I do something else? By the way, I do not run as an Administrator. Also, there is no way I could have known that this was a hacked email; I didn't even think it was suspicious.

Download and install the free versions since they do all you need by running on command, not in the background.

Be careful that you do chose the free versions.

Then update them to the latest definitions and run them in turn.

Both have a good reputation for cleaning up.

If by any chance they refuse to install or won't run after installing because malware is preventing them you can sometimes defeat the malware by changing the name of the exe file to anything except its real title!